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Speaking further about her relationship with her mum, she added: “Her favourite phrase was, 'If I’d have known what you were going to be like, I’d have sent you back.'

“I don’t let it affect my life, but I’ll see a parent and child out, and think, 'You're a good mum.'”

The 74-year-old has previously spoken about physical abuse at the hands of both her parents, but the sexual abuse was never made public until now.

Kim said during her appearance on Celebrity Big Brother: "I was abused for as long as I can remember.
From when I was two and a half or three years old.

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“We were war babies and lots of sad things happened at that time. You meet a young man and he's going away to war and you think you'll never see him again so sex takes place because it's a time of desperation.

“That's what happened with my mum - she got pregnant.

“My parents married but they divorced later on and two little girls were left with my mum. It's sad.

“Both my parents abused me - my mum and dad. And then my stepdad.

“There were beatings and drunkenness. I could never understand why it was happening to me. They never laid a finger on my sister.